Calvarial thickening

Last revised by Rohit Sharma on 21 Feb 2024

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Citation:

Weerakkody Y, Sharma R, Elfeky M, et al. Calvarial thickening. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 16 Apr 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-24649

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-24649

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https://radiopaedia.org/articles/24649

rID:

24649

Article created:

2 Sep 2013, Yuranga Weerakkody ◉

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At the time the article was created Yuranga Weerakkody had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

21 Feb 2024, Rohit Sharma ◉

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At the time the article was last revised Rohit Sharma had no financial relationships to ineligible companies to disclose.

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Systems:

Central Nervous System

Sections:

Gamuts

Tags:

cases

Synonyms:

Causes of calvarial thickening
Differential diagnosis of calvarial thickening
Skull vault thickening
Hyperostosis of skull
Calvarial thickening
Thickening of the cranial vault
Cranial vault thickening
skull thickening
diffuse skull thickening

Calvarial thickening can occur from a number of causes. These include:

idiopathic
chronic ventricular shunting ¹
antiseizure medications
- phenytoin³
osteopetrosis ²
fibrous dysplasia
acromegaly
anemias (largely associated with massive hematopoiesis)
Paget disease
hyperparathyroidism
certain sclerosing bone dysplasias
- hyperostosis corticalis generalisata (van Buchem disease) ⁵
- hyperostosis frontalis interna
- osteopetrosis
- Truswell-Hansen disease (sclerosteosis)
- Worth disease
- Nakamura disease
cerebral arteriovenous malformations ⁴: rare
Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrome
Proteus syndrome

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